Agreed with all of this. That Carney speech was cornpone catastrophic crapola. It’s spineless and it’s daft. “Embrace decline and failure” isn’t the brilliant rhetorical and managerial masterstroke the intelligentsia is portraying it as. I guess they must be this way, though. The alternative is actually doing something substantive: undertaking large projects; reversing decline; declaring the West worth fighting for.

And you know none of that is going to happen. So you get that milquetoast garbage from Carney and ilk.